ESk Lv 11III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Lausavísur 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 174.
Harðan ‘The strong’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
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[1] þrýtr ‘disappears’: So B. The verb þrjóta ‘disappear, dwindle’ (þrýtr 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) is used impersonally with harðan harm ‘the strong grief’ as the acc. object. Þýtr ‘howls, resounds, whistles’ (so A, W) makes no sense in the context.
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
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[1, 2] á hvítum armi ‘in the white arms’: Lit. ‘on the white arm’.
hvítum ‘the white’
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hvítr (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): white
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[1, 2] á hvítum armi ‘in the white arms’: Lit. ‘on the white arm’.
harm ‘grief’
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1. harmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sorrow, grief
Sólborgar ‘of Sólborg’
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sólborg (noun f.): sólborg
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[2] Sólborgar ‘of Sólborg’: The identity of this woman, if she ever existed, is unknown. See also Note to Anon (LaufE) 3/3.
armi ‘arms’
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1. armr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): arm
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[1, 2] á hvítum armi ‘in the white arms’: Lit. ‘on the white arm’.
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This is one of several examples illustrating the poetic violation called collisiones ‘clashes’ by Donatus, where the same syllable (here: ‑ar ar-) occurs at the end of one word and at the beginning of the next.
For collisiones, see also Anon (TGT) 6, 7.
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